Chris Bradford wrote:
I've been looking into backup solutions for my FC5 boxes over our
network to a file server.
I came across netcat and tar, using the following commands:
On the file server run:
*nc -l 6060 > backup.tar.gz*
Then on the client run:
*tar czvOPp --same-owner /* | nc 10.0.35.100 6060*
However this fails due to files in use (i.e the '/proc/' folder) so what
I want to know is what I would need to do in order to create a full,
working backup.
Any ideas?
You could use something that's designed for the job, like bacula. It
takes a bit of setting up but works well, you can do
incremental/differential backups and it's great for recovering bits of
backups from specific times, such as when you accidentally delete things.
And it can back up Windows clients too.
Paul.
